People Quotes - Page 55

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men —above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Twolegs are mousebrain

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

Karen Kingsbury

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

Terry Pratchett

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Diana Wynne Jones

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

People inspire you, or they drain you. PICK THEM WISELY.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

Michael Thomas Ford

People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Charles Bukowski

You learn to move on without the people you love.

Bret Easton Ellis

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

George R.R. Martin

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down.

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

A.S. King

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.

Em Bailey

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

Colette

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

Ford Madox Ford

Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.

Charles Bukowski

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

George Harrison

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.

Masashi Kishimoto

Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Stephen Sondheim

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People can cry much easier than they can change.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Joyce Carol Oates

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

Terry Pratchett

There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.

Anthony Liccione

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

People don't want other people to be people.

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.

Israelmore Ayivor

Most people are boring and stupid.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

Jonathan Safran Foer

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Haruki Murakami

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

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